Improvement in sifting-shovels



atmi @ffm rTHOMAS II. ROONEY, OF OIIIOAOLO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No: '112,078, dated-February 21, 1871.l

'IMPROVEMENT IN SlFTlNGeSHOVELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, THOMAS F. ROONEY, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have.. invented certain new and useful Improvements in sifting-Shovels, of which the following is a fnll description, 'reference'being had to the accompanying drawing making a partv of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and y Figure 2, a cross-section.

Siting-shovels have been. heretofore made by cast,- ing the whole with-bars along the bottom. When made in this mode they are heavy and inconvenient.

They have also been made of sheet metal, with an open space in the bottom, and with wires soldered or riveted across such Opening; but when made in this way they are expensive, and the wires are liable to become lost or misplaced by reason of Vthe thinness of sheet metal or by heat.

The natu'e of my invention consists in making the body and bars of the shovel of one piece of sheet metal by slitting the bottom, and stamping the strips into curved or semi-cylinrdrica form, so as to give them additionallstrength, and also to form the openings for the ashes to pass through.-

To enable othersskilledin the art to make and use my improved shovel, I will describe its construclof suitable dies, and the same set ot' -dies is made to form the shovel and the bars C.

lhe handle E may also be stamped from the same sheet of metal, and "curved, to-` give -it additional strength, or it may be made ot a separate piece, or

separate pieces, and attache-d to A Aby rivets or other suitable fastenings.

Havingthus fully described myimproved shovel, That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shovel vcomposed of a piece of sheet metal, havits body formed 'oi' a series of parallel bars, made by punching slits between them, and bending them transversely, substantially as described. l

' THOMAS F.- ROONEY.

Witnesses:

L. L. BOND, O. W.' BOND. 

